Holiday: Christmas

Follow @TheCircumvent April 17, 2018: Jail time: 9 years April 13, 2018: Vienna court imprisons 19-year-old teen who admitted being member of IS DW, January 7, 2018. An Austrian teenager has been charged on several terror-related counts, including inciting and… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent “Is wishing general well-being Islamic?” the Muslims wondered, while shouting that Islam is a religion of peace. Breitbart Jerusalem, December 30, 2017. Arab social media users have been posting thoughts on the question of whether Muslims are allowed… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent Once again, a true depiction of Muslim tolerance of other faiths. Daily Mail Australia, December 26, 2017. A fundamentalist Muslim sheikh has declared he refuses to wish anyone a Merry Christmas so he can please Allah and go… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent http://video.dailymail.co.uk/video/mol/2017/12/26/8664903656651600538/640x360_MP4_8664903656651600538.mp4 Daily Mail Online, December 26, 2017. ISIS-affiliated fighters in Somalia have called on their supporters to pounce on drunk nonbelievers in a harrowing call for festive season attacks. A group that monitors extremist organizations says the Islamic… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent More Muslim tolerance on display during Christmas. More context: The Hungarian native also said that the bakery did not reject any order he had placed. “I was not rejected; I’m the one who canceled the order,” he said.… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent Of course, to the IB Times these actions are bizarre. There is no reality in that Muslims dislike Christmas, at least the ones who always have the microphones. IB Times, December 24, 2017. It’s almost Christmas eve for… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent The Circumvent has critiqued one of Haroon Moghul’s pieces before. What Haroon is not telling you here is this: Jesus is not the Son of God, and belief in the Trinity is “excess” (Qur’an 4:171; 19:35) Jesus was… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent The Nation Nigeria, December 24, 2017. The Christmas festivity has taken off on a tragic note at Nindem village in Godogodo district of Jema’a Local Government Area, Southern Kaduna, with the murder of four persons at a Christmas… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent Fox News, AP, December 21, 2017. Close to a quarter-million security forces will stand guard outside Christmas celebrations throughout Egypt next week, following a series of church and mosque bombings that rocked the country earlier this year. Egypt’s… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent We’ve come to another Christmas in Indonesia. The Circumvent noted in December 2016: Police in Indonesia “escorted Islam Defenders Front (FPI) members…as they raided shopping malls”[4] checking to make sure no companies had the audacity to have their employees wearing… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent MEMRI TV, December 3, 2017. Saudi cleric Sheikh Abd Al-Aziz Fawzan Al-Fawzan said that while there is more leniency regarding secular or national holidays, participating in Christmas celebrations, congratulating Christians on their holiday, and sending them gifts is… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent Right on cue: the yearly Muslim death threats, the yearly Muslim’s calling Christmas a Satanic holiday. In 2016, The Circumvent noted another Instagram photo of a Christmas tree: Safaa, sister to former One Direction singer, Zayn, posted a picture… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent RT, December 20, 2017. A report that a German school rescheduled a mandatory Christmas celebration after a student complained that it was not compatible with Islam caused a stir in local media, though the school later denied that… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent The Muslim Ebeneezer Scrooge. He’s certainly not the only one: Khaled Al-Felaij, a Saudi cleric, recently lambasted Christmas[16] on a message posted to the internet: “These holidays that are celebrated by those infidel Jews and Christians are false, and run counter… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent Christmas is Palestinian? Heck, isn’t Hannukah also a Palestinian holiday where the Palestinian menorahs are lit to represent the light overcoming the Israeli “Occupation”? Fox News, December 19, 2017. A former Pace University history professor has come under… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent And the $29.95 charged to your bank account for that premium service is actually a part of the “free” trial, written in the fine print. Context is everything. Robert Spencer just penned an article at PJ Media highlighting how… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent Al Arabiya, December 17, 2017. Egyptian authorities announced that they will raise security levels to maximum alert on Sunday in preparation for Coptic Christmas festivities and possible Sinai terrorist attacks. Following a meeting chaired by the Minister of… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent Daily Mail Online, December 16, 2017. A terrorist attack in Britain over Christmas is likelier than ever as around 20,000 extremists roam the country’s street, a former anti-terror chief has warned. Chris Phillips, who was once head of the National… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent BBC News, December 8, 2017. A 19-year-old Afghan asylum seeker has been arrested in Germany after posting a picture of a Christmas market with three bombs superimposed on it on Instagram, police say. The picture of the market… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent December 4: Ahead Of Holidays, ISIS Supporters Circulate Yet Another Call For Attacks In West December 4: ISIS Supporter Calls For Attacks In The West During Christian Holidays Daily Mail Online, December 4, 2017. ISIS has made another threat to Christmas shoppers in London with… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent Nails were used in the two bombs Salman Abedi detonated at the Manchester Arena last year: “Two explosions occurred containing nails, according to a CBS report.” RT, December 1, 2017. The German police have evacuated a Christmas market in the… Continue Reading →